Sign profile
Cancer (कर्क rashi)
कर्क राशि · Water · Cardinal · ruled by Moon · Jun 21 - Jul 22
Cancer protects. The Moon rules the sign, so mood, memory and home are its instruments; it reads a room before entering it and remembers who was kind. Its defence is the shell, its gift is the hearth. Karka rashi contains the last quarter of Punarvasu, all of Pushya and all of Ashlesha, so the sign spans the zodiac's most nourishing star and its most binding one.
- Element
- Water
- Modality
- Cardinal
- Ruling planet
- ☽︎ Moon
- Sun dates (tropical)
- Jun 21 - Jul 22
- Hindi name
- कर्क
- Keywords
- protection, memory, tides of feeling
Strengths
Emotional intelligence, loyalty, care that is practical rather than performed.
Readings for Cancer
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Nakshatras in sidereal कर्क
The Vedic sign of the same name is a sidereal sector about 24 degrees earlier on the ecliptic than the tropical one, so a tropical Cancer Sun is often a sidereal Gemini. Find yours with the free kundli. These lunar mansions fall wholly or partly inside कर्क rashi: